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    https://join.piefed.social/features/

    Differences between Lemmy and PieFed

    Community Organization & Discovery

    Categories & Topics – Communities can be grouped into customizable, shareable categories and broader topics.

    Feeds – Similar to multireddits, allowing users to bundle multiple communities into one view (example).

    Local-only Communities – Some communities can be set to not federate.

    Tiled/Masonry View – For image-heavy communities (example).

    Community Wikis – Each community has its own wiki page.

    Posting & Content

    Consolidated Comments – View all comments from multiple related posts on one page (example).

    Post & User Flairs – Both posts and users can have flairs.

    Spoiler Tags – Built-in spoiler support for posts.

    Polls – Native polling system.

    Events – Posts with a location and time.

    Hashtags – Fully supported.

    Keyword Filter – Hide all posts containing specified words.

    NSFL Filter & Icon – Separate from NSFW.

    4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.

    Domain Blocking – Block specific domains (separate from instance blocking).

    Bot Filter – Hide posts from all bots with a single checkbox.

    More Efficient Federation – votes are sent in batches.

    Move Communities To Another Instance

    Translate Posts – LibreTranslate integration

    Moderation & Safety

    Better Moderation & Reporting Tools – More robust admin/mod utilities. Video tour

    Proper Instance Blocking – Actually hides all content from blocked instances.

    User IP Bans – Prevents repeat offenders.

    Image hash-based blocking – video demo

    Authoritarian Inoculation – Feature to reduce the impact of authoritarian propaganda.

    Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.

    Staff and Admin Users – Clear admin role separation.

    Cannot Use “password” as a Password – Basic account security enforcement.

    Video tour of admin area

    User Experience

    Keyboard Shortcuts – For faster navigation.

    Low Bandwidth Mode – For slow connections.

    Voting Privacy – Votes can be private (not federated); in meme communities, upvotes don’t affect reputation (optional).

    Improved Ranking Algorithm – Hotness ranking tuned for better content surfacing (subjective).

    Better UI Design – Cleaner interface (subjective).

    Default Comment Collapsing – Comments at -10 score or below are collapsed automatically.

    Low Reputation Indicator – Identifies consistently downvoted users.

    New Account Icon – Marks accounts that are new.

    Privacy Policy – Clearly available.

    Proper Chat – Built-in real-time chat.